Lead Software Engineer BaaS Team

at Eliassen Group in Boise, Idaho, United States

Lead Software Engineer BaaS Team

Anywhere

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Development

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -...55

Date Posted: 05/12/2026

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Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the BaaS team to support partner onboarding and platform enhancements. The role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that enable embedded financial services. The position requires strong back-end C# development, Azure expertise, and comfort working across development and QA functions in an external partner-facing environment.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

+ Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.

+ Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.

+ Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.

+ Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to monitoring and alerting systems.

+ Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

+ Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform and create decision documentation.

+ Evaluate and champion adoption of emerging technologies.

+ Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features.

+ Build durable and flexible systems that favor configurability over customization.

Experience Requirements:

+ 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.

+ Back-end C# and . NET development experience.

+ Hands-on experience with Azure native services such as API Management, Azure SQL , Cosmos DB, and Key Vault.

+ Experience with container technologies and caching frameworks.

+ Deep understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI.

+ Familiarity with event-driven and microservice architectures including S